Frases de Samuel Butler
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Samuel Butler fue un escritor, compositor y filólogo inglés, principalmente conocido por su sátira utópica Erewhon y su novela póstuma The Way of All Flesh.

Fue un autor iconoclasta victoriano que también escribió análisis sobre la ortodoxia cristiana y realizó estudios sobre el pensamiento evolucionista, así como sobre el arte italiano y la historia y crítica literaria. Asimismo, realizó traducciones en prosa de la Ilíada y la Odisea, que siguen siendo utilizadas hoy en día. Butler se describió a sí mismo como un "escritor filosófico".[1] Wikipedia

✵ 4. diciembre 1835 – 18. junio 1902

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Frases célebres de Samuel Butler

“La vida es el arte de sacar conclusiones suficientes a partir de datos insuficientes.”

“Canta, oh diosa, la ira de Aquiles, hijo de Peleo, que trajo innumerables males sobre los aqueos. Muchas almas valientes lo enviaron apresuradamente a Hades, y muchos héroes lo hicieron presa de perros y buitres, porque así se cumplieron los consejos de Jove desde el día en que el hijo de Atreo, rey de los hombres, y gran Aquiles, primero se peleó el uno con el otro.”

Primeras líneas de la traducción de Butler de la Ilíada (1898).
Fuente: [Butler] (2015).

“La indulgencia intelectual es la forma más gratuita y vergonzosa que puede tomar el exceso, y no hay ninguna de las consecuencias más desastrosas.”

Parte II - Moralidad elemental
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912)
Fuente: [Butler] (1973).

“El trabajo de cada hombre, ya sea literatura, música, imágenes, arquitectura o cualquier otra cosa, es siempre un retrato de sí mismo, y cuanto más intenta ocultarse, más claramente aparecerá su personaje a pesar de él.”

Samuel Butler libro The Way of All Flesh

Parte I - Señor, ¿qué es el hombre?
The Way of All Flesh (1903)
Fuente: [Butler] (1912).

“Teniendo en cuenta los números, debería pensar que se ha sufrido más sufrimiento mental en las calles que conducen desde San Jorge, Hanover Square, que en las celdas condenadas de Newgate.”

Samuel Butler libro The Way of All Flesh

Capítulo 13
The Way of All Flesh (1903)
Fuente: [Butler] (1973).

“Es mucho más seguro saber demasiado poco que demasiado. La gente condenará a uno, aunque se arrepentirán de ser llamados a esforzarse para seguir al otro.”

Samuel Butler libro The Way of All Flesh

Capítulo 5
The Way of All Flesh (1903)
Fuente: [Butler] (1973).

Frases de hombres de Samuel Butler

“No puede haber pactos entre hombres y leones, los lobos y los corderos nunca pueden ser de una sola opinión, sino que se odian entre sí y se salen del paso.”

The Fair Haven, memorias del difunto John Pickard Owen, cap. 3 (1873).
Fuente: [Butler] (2015).

“Las palabras, las palabras, las palabras que escribe, son los obstáculos en el camino de la verdad. Hasta que no pienses en las cosas como son, y no en las palabras que las tergiversan, no puedes pensar correctamente. Las palabras producen la aparición de líneas duras y rápidas donde no hay ninguna. Las palabras se dividen; así llamamos a esto un hombre, que un mono, que un mono, mientras que todos ellos son solo diferenciaciones de la misma cosa. Para pensar en algo de lo que deben deshacerse, son la ropa que usan los pensamientos, solo la ropa. Digo esto una y otra vez, porque no hay nada de más importancia. Las palabras de otros hombres lo detendrán al comienzo de una investigación. Un hombre puede jugar con las palabras toda su vida, organizarlas y reorganizarlas como fichas de dominó. Si pudiera pensarte sin palabras me entenderías mejor.”

Vida y hábitos, cap. 5 (1877).
Fuente: [Butler] (2005).

“El hombre que se deja aburrir es incluso más despreciable que el aburrido.”

The Fair Haven, memorias del difunto John Pickard Owen, cap. 3 (1873).
Fuente: [[Butler], Samuel, The Fair Haven, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 1952] ISBN 1979911223

Samuel Butler Frases y Citas

“Pero tan arraigado en el corazón humano está el deseo de creer que algunas personas realmente saben lo que dicen que saben y, por lo tanto, pueden salvarlos de la molestia de pensar por sí mismos, que en un corto tiempo los aspirantes a filósofos, se volvieron más poderosos que nunca, y gradualmente condujeron a sus compatriotas a aceptar todos esos puntos de vista absurdos de la vida…”

Capítulo 27
Erewhon (1872)
Fuente: [Butler] (2010).

“Porque la propiedad es un robo, pero entonces, todos somos ladrones o posibles ladrones juntos, y hemos encontrado que es esencial organizar nuestro robo, ya que hemos encontrado que es necesario organizar nuestra lujuria y nuestra venganza. La propiedad, el matrimonio, la ley; como el cauce al río, así la regla y la convención al instinto; y ¡ay de quien manipula las orillas mientras fluye el diluvio!”

Capítulo 12
Erewhon (1872)
Fuente: [Butler] (2010).

“Cuando salió de la habitación, reflexioné sobre la conversación que acababa de tener entre nosotros, pero no pude sacar nada de ella, excepto que argumentaba una perversidad aún mayor de la visión mental de la que aún estaba preparada. Y esto me hizo desdichado; porque no puedo soportar tener mucho que ver con personas que piensan diferente a mí.”

Capítulo 9
Erewhon (1872)

“Lo recuerdo y me deleito ahora, pero no lo noté en ese momento. Casi nunca sabemos cuándo estamos bien, pero esto corta dos maneras, porque si lo hiciéramos, quizás deberíamos saber mejor cuando estamos enfermos también; y algunas veces he pensado que hay tantos ignorantes de uno como de otro. El que escribió O fortunatos nimium sua si bona norint agricolas, podría haber escrito con la misma sinceridad: O infortunatos nimium sua si mala norint; y somos pocos los que no estamos protegidos del dolor más agudo por nuestra incapacidad para ver qué es lo que hemos hecho, lo que estamos sufriendo y lo que realmente somos. Estemos agradecidos al espejo por revelarnos nuestra apariencia solamente.”

Capítulo 3
Erewhon (1872)
Fuente: [Butler] (2010).

“Una gallina es solo la forma en que un huevo hace otro huevo.”

Vida y hábitos, cap. 8 (1877).
Fuente: [Butler] (2005).

“La vida y la muerte están equilibradas como si estuvieran al borde de una navaja.”

Vida y hábitos, cap. 8 (1877).
Fuente: [Butler] (2015).

“El Discóbolo que se pone aquí porque es vulgar. No tiene chaleco ni pantalón para cubrir sus extremidades.”

A Psalm of Montreal, cap. 5 (1884).
Fuente: [[Butler], Samuel, The essential Samuel Butler, Dutton, 1950]

Samuel Butler: Frases en inglés

“We do not know what death is. If we know so little about life which we have experienced, how shall be know about death which we have not — and in the nature of things never can?”

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Ramblings In Cheapside (1890)

“A pair of lovers are like sunset and sunrise: there are such things every day but we very seldom see them.”

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Samuel Butler libro The Way of All Flesh

Fuente: The Way of All Flesh (1903), Ch. 11

““Plants,” said he, “show no sign of interesting themselves in human affairs. We shall never get a rose to understand that five times seven are thirty-five, and there is no use in talking to an oak about fluctuations in the price of stocks. Hence we say that the oak and the rose are unintelligent, and on finding that they do not understand our business conclude that they do not understand their own. But what can a creature who talks in this way know about intelligence? Which shows greater signs of intelligence? He, or the rose and oak?”

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Fuente: Erewhon (1872), Ch. 27

“Inspiration is never genuine if it is known as inspiration at the time. True inspiration always steals on a person; its importance not being fully recognised for some time.”

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Genius, iii
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part XI - Cash and Credit

“I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.”

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Falsehood, iv
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part XIX - Truth and Convenience

“The great characters of fiction live as truly as the memories of dead men. For the life after death it is not necessary that a man or woman should have lived.”

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Hamlet, Don Quixote, Mr. Pickwick and others
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part XIV - Higgledy-Piggledy

“The more unpopular an opinion is, the more necessary is it that the holder should be somewhat punctilious in his observance of conventionalities generally, and that, if possible, he should get the reputation of being well-to-do in the world.”

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The Art of Propagating Opinion
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part X - The Position of a HomoUnius Libri

“The public buys its opinions as it buys its meat, or takes in its milk, on the principle that it is cheaper to do this than to keep a cow. So it is, but the milk is more likely to be watered.”

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Public Opinions
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part XVII - Material for a Projected Sequel to Alps and Sanctuaries

“Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have.”

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Thought and Word, ii
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part VII - On the Making of Music, Pictures, and Books

“Argument is generally waste of time and trouble. It is better to present one’s opinion and leave it to stick or no as it may happen. If sound, it will probably in the end stick, and the sticking is the main thing.”

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Argument
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part X - The Position of a HomoUnius Libri

“There are some things which it is madness not to try to know but which it is almost as much madness to try to know.”

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Trying to Know
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part X - The Position of a HomoUnius Libri

“Most artists, whether in religion, music, literature, painting, or what not, are shopkeepers in disguise. They hide their shop as much as they can, and keep pretending that it does not exist, but they are essentially shopkeepers and nothing else.”

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The Artist and the Shopkeeper
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part XI - Cash and Credit

“The composer is seldom a great theorist; the theorist is never a great composer. Each is equally fatal to and essential in the other.”

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Action and Study
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part IX - A Painter's Views on Painting

“The true laws of God are the laws of our own well-being.”

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God's Laws
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part II - Elementary Morality

““To be born,” they say, “is a felony--it is a capital crime, for which sentence may be executed at any moment after the commission of the offence. You may perhaps happen to live for some seventy or eighty years, but what is that, compared with the eternity you now enjoy? And even though the sentence were commuted, and you were allowed to live on for ever, you would in time become so terribly weary of life that execution would be the greatest mercy to you.”

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Fuente: Erewhon (1872), Ch. 19

“Stowed away in a Montreal lumber room
The Discobolus standeth and turneth his face to the wall;
Dusty, cobweb-covered, maimed and set at naught,
Beauty crieth in an attic and no man regardeth:
O God! O Montreal!”

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A Psalm of Montreal http://www.geocities.com/~bblair/011204.htm, st. 1 (1884)

“There can be no covenants between men and lions, wolves and lambs can never be of one mind, but hate each other out and out an through.”

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The Iliad of Homer, Rendered into English Prose (1898), Book XXII

“Words impede and either kill, or are killed by, perfect thought; but they are, as a scaffolding, useful, if not indispensable, for the building up of imperfect thought and helping to perfect it.”

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Thought and Word, vi
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part VII - On the Making of Music, Pictures, and Books

“The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it.”

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Early Art
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part IX - A Painter's Views on Painting

“If I die prematurely, at any rate I shall be saved from being bored by my own success.”

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Compensation
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part X - The Position of a HomoUnius Libri

“The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.”

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The Fair Haven http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext04/fhvn10h.htm, Memoir of the Late John Pickard Owen, Ch. 3 (1873)

“Our choice is apparently most free, and we are least obviously driven to determine our course, in those cases where the future is most obscure, that is, when the balance of advantage appears most doubtful.”

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Choice
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part XX - First Principles

“A man is the resultant and exponent of all the forces that have been brought to bear upon him, whether before his birth or afterwards. His action at any moment depends solely upon his constitution, and on the intensity and direction of the various agencies to which he is, and has been, subjected. Some of these will counteract each other; but as he is by nature, and as he has been acted on, and is now acted on from without, so will he do, as certainly and regularly as though he were a machine.
We do not generally admit this, because we do not know the whole nature of any one, nor the whole of the forces that act upon him. We see but a part, and being thus unable to generalise human conduct, except very roughly, we deny that it is subject to any fixed laws at all, and ascribe much both of a man’s character and actions to chance, or luck, or fortune; but these are only words whereby we escape the admission of our own ignorance; and a little reflection will teach us that the most daring flight of the imagination or the most subtle exercise of the reason is as much the thing that must arise, and the only thing that can by any possibility arise, at the moment of its arising, as the falling of a dead leaf when the wind shakes it from the tree.”

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Fuente: Erewhon (1872), Ch. 25

“I doubt whether any angel would find me very entertaining. As for myself, if ever I do entertain one it will have to be unawares. When people entertain others without an introduction they generally turn out more like devils than angels.”

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Entertaining Angels
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part X - The Position of a HomoUnius Libri

“When he had left the room, I mused over the conversation which had just taken place between us, but I could make nothing out of it, except that it argued an even greater perversity of mental vision than I had been yet prepared for. And this made me wretched; for I cannot bear having much to do with people who think differently from myself.”

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Fuente: Erewhon (1872), Ch. 9

“Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch cold on over-exposure.”

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Truth, vii
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part XIX - Truth and Convenience

“The Discobolus is put here because he is vulgar —
He has neither vest nor pants with which to cover his limbs.”

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A Psalm of Montreal, st. 5

“Life is the gathering of waves to a head, at death they break into a million fragments each one of which, however, is absorbed at once into the sea of life and helps to form a later generation which comes rolling on till it too breaks.”

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Birth and Death, ii
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part I - Lord, What is Man?

“The pursuit of truth is chimerical. That is why it is so hard to say what truth is. There is no permanent absolute unchangeable truth; what we should pursue is the most convenient arrangement of our ideas.”

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Truth, ii
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part XIX - Truth and Convenience

“We are so far identical with our ancestors and our contemporaries that it is very rarely we can see anything that they do not see. It is not unjust that the sins of the fathers should be visited upon the children, for the children committed the sins when in the persons of their fathers.”

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Personal Identity
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part IV - Memory and Design

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